The Notebook is an epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to an older,invalid woman whom he regularly visits.From a faded notebook,the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II,and is then passionately reunited,seven years later,after they have taken different paths.Though her memory has faded,his words give her the chance to relive her turbulent youth and the unforgettable love they shared.
"Everyman is Roth's attempt to modernize The Death of Ivan Ilych.Although it lacks the terrible grandeur of Tolstoy's story,Roth's version might be set at a still lower temperature.Perhaps the only weakness in Everyman is that there isn't really,in the end,any argument to keep up — which is another way of saying that Philip Roth has reached the limit of what he can be funny about." Benjamin Markovits,The Times Literary Supplement
From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie,a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives,and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer.
Eddie is a wounded war veteran,an old man who has lived,in his mind,an uninspired life.His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park.On his 83rd birthday,a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart.He awakes in the afterlife,where he learns that heaven is not a destination.It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people,some of whom you knew,others who may have been strangers.One by one,from childhood to soldier to old age,Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth,illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life,and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question:"Why was I here?"